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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by CableNinja on Friday March 29, 2024 @12:55PM (#39866274)
Thats basically the whole point actually... A company pays for insurance for the business. The insurance company says sure we will insure you, but you need to go through audits A B and C, and you need certifications X and Y to be insured by us. Those audits are often industry dependent, mostly for topics like HIPAA, PCI, SOC, etc.

Insurance company hears about supply chain attacks. Declares that insured must have supply chain validation. Company goes and gets a shiny cert.

Now when things go wrong, the company can point to the cert and go "it wasnt us, see we have the cert you told us to get and its up to date". And the company gets to wash their hands of liability (most of the time).

Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by 77pt77 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @01:36PM (#39876852)
> And the company gets to wash their hands of liability (most of the time).

Certification theater.

It's completely performative.

Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by landownersubgrp on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @11:35AM (#39918830)
What you describe is a normal process in order to minimise damage from attacks. The damage of hacking is ultimately property damage. The procedures you've described allow you to minimise it.

And that's a good thing.